Studies of legs and an arm (after The Laocoon, Muziano, Raphael, Cavalier d'Arpino, Perino del Vaga, Michelangelo and other sources) thumbnail 1
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Studies of legs and an arm (after The Laocoon, Muziano, Raphael, Cavalier d'Arpino, Perino del Vaga, Michelangelo and other sources)

Drawing
1628-1671 (made)
Artist/Maker

Part of a bound volume of 140 drawings


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleStudies of legs and an arm (after The Laocoon, Muziano, Raphael, Cavalier d'Arpino, Perino del Vaga, Michelangelo and other sources) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, framing line in black chalk. Inscribed by the artist, throughout the sheet, in brown ink.
Brief description
Drawing, 'Studies of legs and an arm (after The Laocoon, Muziano, Raphael, Cavalier d'Arpino, Perino del Vaga, Michelangelo and other sources)', by Jan de Bisschop, pen and brown ink, with brown wash, framing line in black chalk, inscribed by the artist, throughout the sheet, in brown ink, mid-seventeenth century
Physical description
Part of a bound volume of 140 drawings
Dimensions
  • Height: 120mm
  • Width: 196mm
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed by the artist, throughout the sheet, in brown ink: at upper left (illegible); at upper centre left, Josepino; at centre left, Vaga; at upper centre, Laocoon; to the right of this, Mutziano; and at upper right, Rafael.
Object history
Goswin Uilenbroek (1658–1740), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, Beukelaar, 23 October 1741, Album K: ‘Een groot Boek in Jugt leer van omtrent 120 Tekeningen, gewassen van Bisschop na Statuen en groepen in Antieke Bas relieven, getekent met voornemen om in ‘t koper te brengen, gelyk hy in zyn Voorreden van zijn Boek zegt, op groot gedubbelt papier geplakt. 4 ou plus’ (bt. for 280 fl.); Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam (L. 2725), 1760–c.1763;1 probably Benjamin West (1738–1820), London; probably Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92), London; Horace Walpole (1717–97), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, 1763; Edwin Parsons (dealer), London; from whom purchased for the museum (each individual drawing with dry stamp version of L. 1958), 8 June 1889 for £13. 13s. 0d.
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 23.104, illlus. p. 58
Collection
Accession number
D.1212:105-1889

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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